Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 08:42:58 +0200 From: "Federico Lorenzi" <florenzi@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Nvidia doesn't start on cryptic errors Message-ID: <3a386af20705282342h22739082rc1cf5b34ad4b14e2@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <465B222E.5010304@u.washington.edu> References: <200705281518.08238.vittorio@de-martino.it> <200705281051.04823.lists@jnielsen.net> <200705282003.47681.vittorio@de-martino.it> <465B1C7E.1020904@u.washington.edu> <465B222E.5010304@u.washington.edu>
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I had this problem only yesterday, and I couldn't get it to work, but i played around with the Agp options and rebooted and it worked. Sorry I dont have anymore info about how i did it. HTH Federico On 5/28/07, Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> wrote: > Garrett Cooper wrote: > > Vittorio De Martino wrote: > >> Il Monday 28 May 2007 14:51:04 John Nielsen ha scritto: > >>> On Monday 28 May 2007 11:18:07 Vittorio De Martino wrote: > >>>> On my newly bought HP pavillion 6366 notebook with freebsd 6.2 - p4 and > >>>> one of the latest portsnap I have an nvidia go 7400 card, *** fully *** > >>>> supported by the nvidia driver according to the docs. > >>>> > >>>> I followed the minimal configuration by nvidia-xconfig and just taiored > >>>> the language for the keyboard....BUT > >>>> startx fails to load X and in the log file I find I find the below > >>>> reported errors. > >>>> > >>>> Being a beginner I find myself somewhat disorientated by these errors > >>>> that I couldn't find surfing the net. > >>>> > >>>> (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module! Please > >>>> ensure (EE) NVIDIA(0): that there is a supported NVIDIA GPU in this > >>>> system, and (EE) NVIDIA(0): that the NVIDIA device files have been > >>>> created properly. (EE) NVIDIA(0): Please consult the NVIDIA README > >>>> for details. > >>>> (EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting *** > >>> Not too cryptic. Make sure that the nvidia kernel module is loaded > >>> and try > >>> again. To verify, type "kldstat". If nvidia.ko is not listed, type > >>> "kldload > >>> nvidia". To load it automatically on boot (which is the only way for > >>> it to > >>> load successfully), add a line like this to /boot/loader.conf: > >>> > >>> nvidia_load="YES" > >>> > >>> Then reboot. > >>> > >> > >> Actually the nvidia.ko mdule was and is loaded > >> hpbsd# kldstat > >> Id Refs Address Size Name > >> 1 24 0xc0400000 5b33d8 kernel > >> .................................. > >> 4 3 0xc0a7e000 1e058 linux.ko > >> 5 1 0xc0a9d000 435c acpi_video.ko > >> 6 3 0xc0aa2000 61ba0 acpi.ko > >> 7 1 0xc0b04000 6d4de0 nvidia.ko > >> 8 1 0xc11d9000 aed4 cpufreq.ko > >> 9 1 0xc11e4000 4a2c acpi_ibm.ko > >> .................................. > >> 15 1 0xc7245000 2000 rtc.ko > >> > >> I was able to eliminate the following error > >> -------------------- > >> (II) LoadModule: "wfb" > >> (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libwfb.so > >> dlopen: Shared object "librpcsvc.so.2" not found, required by "libwfb.so" > >> (EE) Failed to load /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libwfb.so > >> ------------------ > >> because the required librpcsvc.so.2 has become (and is presente as) > >> librpcsvc.so.3. Therefore I linked ln -s librpcsvc.so.3 librpcsvc.so.2 > >> > >> That's ok now BUT > >> > >> NVIDIA: could not open the device /dev/nvidiactl (II) Setting vga for > >> screen 0. > >> (**) NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32 > >> (==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888 > >> (==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor > >> (==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0) > >> (**) NVIDIA(0): Enabling RENDER acceleration > >> (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module! Please > >> ensure > >> (EE) NVIDIA(0): that there is a supported NVIDIA GPU in this > >> system, and > >> (EE) NVIDIA(0): that the NVIDIA device files have been created > >> properly. (EE) NVIDIA(0): Please consult the NVIDIA README for > >> details. > >> > >> still something incorrect prevents startx to fire X. > >> The problems seems to be /dev/nvidiactl! > >> > >> Please help - Vittorio > > > > Add yourself to the video group and chown/mod the /dev node until you > > have read, write, and executable access. > > > > -Garrett > > Vittorio, > > Hint: Everything in the Xorg.0.log file with... > ...(EE) right before it, generally means that it's a problem ;). > ...(WW) sometimes mean you should consider what's being said. > > -Garrett > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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